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With present day advancements made in tech and storytelling, the novel is not always the main source of literature we might turn to, to explore the past. The video game has become more complex and engaging—many different genres of games now employ thoughtful and complex narratives. 

The neo-Victorian and nineteenth century-set video game has also become more popular in recent years: playing on and with Victorian literature and culture to bring to the player a point of cultural reference, and an opportunity to adjust, reject, correct, or simply reflect on Victorian narratives. Thus, this seminar course explores various neo-Victorian video games as a portal to nineteenth century literature and culture. By pairing various neo-Victorian video games with nineteenth-century literature these combined readings allow students (and players) the ability to engage with the Victorians more closely. 

Topics like Slumming, Industrialism, Colonialism, the Return of the Repressed Other, the Fall of the Empire, and Decadence, are just a few of the different topics up for consideration by the class in our exploration of the nineteenth century past. All readings will be paired with contextual nineteenth century non-fiction to provide further context and add to discussion each week. Most games will be made accessible to students via free online playthroughs, or access to consoles in office hours and seminar.
 

**This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.

¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Repeatable Courses
With repeatable courses, the course number (e.g., ENGL 466) is repeatable, but the topic is not. You can take as many topics as you like under the same course number, but you can only take each individual topic once. 

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